Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-17
SLAVERY AND MURDER.
SECOND CHAPTER In THE CHINESE
ABDUCTION CASE.
Judge Toohy Refuses TO Return the
Woman to Slavery-Her Story OF
Sacramento Murder.

infamous case of outrage and slavery a
brief resume Of the facts is essential. Rev.
Thomas Filben, representing the Chinese
Methodist Nilsson, received information
that Fung All Lee, the Chinese slave de-
sired her freedom. He set about to accord
it to her. Two several Cinnamon who were
( secured to befriend the woman and Mr..
Filben,
WHEN BROUGHT TO THE SCRATCH,
Withdrew from the case through fear of
the highbinders Mr.. Filben finally Sc
cured the aid Of two deputy Constables
and on the Sth inst. an hour was appointed
for the woman to make break for liberty.
She dashed out of the house toward
hack provided in the alley between
Second and Third, and streets. She
tripped and fell and was Immediately
bounced upon by highbinders and hags. A
mob of Chinese collected, Constables came
to the rescue and after terrible struggle, in
which the woman was bruised and wound
ed, her clothing nearly torn from her body,
she was got into the hack. driven to the San
Francisco train just before it pulled out of
the depot. Her thanks to her rescuers
were fearful, loud and sincere. She tore
the trinkets OF jewelry her masters had
placed upon her from her person and cast
them away with denunciations of loathing.
At Dayisyille gang OF highbinders at
tempted to take the woman from the car
but the passengers aided Mr.. Filben and
the ruffians were summarily elected. At
Elmira
CONSTABLE DEMANDED THE WOMAN
And exhibited dispatch from Constable
kincaid, of Davisville ordering him to
take her at all hazards. This outrageous
proceeding on the part of Kincaid, who had
no lthority Of law for his act, so excited
the passengers that they defied the Elmira
Constable to take the woman from the
train and be did not. At San Francisco
mob of highbinders and roughs were as
sembled to seize the woman, but by the aid
of the United Carriage Company she was
Struggled out private entrance to the
wharf and taken to the Presbyterian Mis-
sion. The owner of the woman is the
notorious slave-driver, Chin All Fee. He
is the same highlander who stole the
Vallejo woman and for weeks
had her concealed in Hoptown. in
this county, where she was finally
found and rescued by her husband, who
was employed on Government man-of-
war. Chin All Fee and his wife, Now
Yek, keep slave pen and bagnio on
Third street. from which the woman Flung
have Mr.. Filben and the Constables ar
rested here for abduction. but that failed.
Chm All Fee then went to San Francisco
and had Chin Lee swear out
WRIT OF HABEAs CORPUS
Before Judge Toohy, and it was served
upon Mrs. Culbertson of the PRESBYTERIAN
Mission, and the case came on for hearing
yesterday. Mr.. Ash appeared for the Chi
naman and w. f. Gibson as attorney for
Mrs. Culbertson. Her return was that the
woman was voluntarily in the Mission and
not restrained of her liberty, and if given
over to the petitioner she would be re-
turned to the worst of slavery. As the wo-
man entered the Courtroom there was
! crowd at the door, and in the crowd was
the Sacramento high-binder, Chin All Fee
lie pushed through and iostled against the
woman and said to her in Chinese being
overheard by the interpreter You must
say you want to go with Chin Lee
The petitioner took the stand and swore
that he was married to the woman twelve
months ago by Justice G. n. Post, of Sacra-
mento; that he then left Sacramento, but
had been back once 10 see his wife Last
week this man swore, in proceedings to ar
rest Mr.. Filben and the Constables. that he
married the woman fifteen months ago and
had not seen her slncel He testified, in
response TO Judge Toohy's questions, that
he rented a room for his wife in Sacramento
and every month sent money for her sup
port. He admitted, however, that he did
not send the money to her, bat
TO HIS COUSIN
In Sacramento. He swore positively that
he never had seen, nor did not know, Chin
All Fee, the Sacramento highlander Yet
ii is a fact that this man came 10 Sacra-
mento last week at the command of Chin
All Fee and the highlander at the time he
was testifying was at the door of the Court
| room. Chin All Lee swore that Mrs Gull
bertson restrained his wife of her liberty:
that a woman from the Mission told him
so; that his wife wanted him to get her
away and had asked this woman to tell
| him so.
The woman, Fung Lee, was then put
| upon the stand. She swore that she was
not restrained of her liberty went to the
Mission voluntarily, and wanted to stay
there. That she had never told any woman
| she desired to get away from the Mission,
as her husband testified She sWore that
| she had been enslaved in Sacramento BY
| Chin All Fee, and had run away from his
| place because she abhOrred the life of a
prostitute. She said eighteen months ago.
| when he first bought her, she escaped but
| they pursued her and brought her back.
| Then Chin All Fee said she must be mar
ried. He brought this man (Chin LeeJ and
| forced her TO go with him and 90 through
! the form OF eonsenting to marriage before
Justice G. n. Post. She did not dare 10 re-
| fuse. The man, Chin Lee, immediately
| left; she
Rad NEVER SEEN HIM
| Since, nor had she received any support
from him, but had been kept in bondage
| by Now y Elk and Chin All Fee on Third
| street in Sacramento ever since Some
| friends had told of her desire to get away,
and that was how it come that Mr.. Fiben
and the two Coustables rescued her. Judge
Toohy then said: 1t is perfectly evident
! that this woman is not restrained OF her
| liberty by Mrs. Culbertson or any one else
! She does not desire to go with this man
and there is no law to compel her to do SO.
She is entitled to her liberty under the laws
of this land to come and go as she pleases,
| and no one must restrain her l am salts
! fled that if | should tell her to go with this
man and she obey, she would be returned
to the slavery whence she escaped. There
| fore let the writ be dimissed."
WOMAN MURDERED.
| The woman tells the officers of the mis-
sion that while she was enslaved on Third
| street in Sacramento another woman of her
class was possessed of desire to escape
and gain her liberty. She planned to do
so out was always defeated Dy the nag
Now Yek, and beaten for her temerity
Finally the slave-keepers were so enraged
at the repeated efforts of the woman to get
away that Chin All Fee one day seized her,
bound handkerchief over her mouth and
nose SO as to gag her, and holding it tightly
at the back of the neck he got her in
helpless position, while Now Yek pro-
ceeded to beat her all about her body in
terrible manner and with cruel skill that
the Chinese are we'll known to possess in
the use of the bamboo. The woman was
so badly injured that shortly afterwards
she died. Fung Lee says that this hap
pened in slave pen where she WAS kept,
| and that she was with the woman when
she died from its effects. 1t will be inter-
esting to know what will be the next move
on the part of Chin All Fee 10 recover his
slave.
Many citizens of this city express an
opinion that Justices of the Peace should
not solemnne Chinese marriages. Leave
it to the clergymen and such marriages as
the one above referred to viii never take
place.
En- ROUTE To FoLsoM.-Last night Deputy